Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

The dapperly dressed young man was walking by uniformed French police officers blocking one of the museum's gates.

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In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

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Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, ...

Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate over their transport is far from over.